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A Lime scooter rider died this morning in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month

2018-09-22T01:35:10Z - Connie Loizos / TechCrunch

Lime, the 18-month-old, San Francisco-based company whose bright green bicycles and scooters now dot cities throughout the U.S., launched a pilot program in Tacoma, Washington, today, but that tiny victory might have felt short-lived.
The reason: on the opposite side of the country, a Lime rider was killed today by an SUV while tooling around Washington D.C.’s DuPont neighborhood.
On the one hand, the developments, while unfortunate, can hardly come as a surprise to anyone given how vulnerable riders or e-scooters are.
That leaves riders sharing city streets with the same types of giant, exhaust-spewing machines that they hope to increasingly displace.
Bird has even publicly offered to help fund new infrastructure that keeps cyclists and scooter riders safer.